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1955 poet

Iesirea din apa, 1981; Cinci cantece pentru eroii civilizatori, 1983; Lumina de la foc, 1990; Lux, 1992; Ruleta ruseasca, 1993; Desfacerea, 1994; O zi pentru a muri, 1995; Canta, zeita, mania..., 1996; Mai mult ca moartea, 1997; De partea mortilor, 1998; Cafeaua cu sare, 1998; Apa moale, 1998; Crucea verbului, Editura Paralela 45, 2001

Coming out of the Water, 1981; Five Songs for the Civilizing Heroes, 1983; Light from the Fire, 1990; Luxury, 1992; The Russian Roulette, 1993; The Undoing, 1994; Sing, Goddess, the Wrath... 1996; More than Death, 1997; On The Side of the Dead, 1998; Coffee with Salt, 1998; Soft Water, 1998

Cand nu este muzicala sau picturala, poezia lui Ion Stratan capata un puternic accent reflexiv. Atunci simturile se deregleaza, vederea si auzul parand a se muta de la locurile lor obisnuite. In poezia lui Ion Stratan, indicibilul se insinueaza in incoerentele de limbaj, in pauzele discursului literar, in enunturile eliptice. Intre plus cunoastere si minus cunoastere exista un fel de zona indecidabila. Mereu in cautarea unui punct, a unui timp inelar, scriitorul detecteaza elemente de reper. (Romul Munteanu)


When it is not musical or pictorial, Ion Stratan's poetry acquires a strong reflective accent. Then the senses become unsettled sight and hearing seem to move from their usual places. In Ion Stratan's poetry, the unspeakable sneaks into linguistic incoherence, into the pauses in the literary discourse and into the elliptical statements. Between plus knowledge and minus knowledge there is a kind of ambivalent zone. Always in quest of a point, of a ring-shaped time, the writer detects guide marks. (Romul Munteanu)